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The Civil Rights Division says more than 50 half-century-old desegregation cases are over because the districts have integrated, but some cases continue without it, many ended by agreement rather than a court finding, and the research on districts released before them points to a measurable cost for students.

A federal judge let the Justice Department drop fraud charges against one of Asia's richest men on one narrow legal ground, after finding most of its other reasons unsupported and its case against the foreign bribery count contradicted by the department's own 2025 guidelines.

For the second time in two months, Judge Stephanie Gallagher found the government in contempt in the same class action, this time for deporting a 19-year-old to El Salvador less than three weeks after immigration officers were issued guidance meant to prevent exactly that.

A judge in Oregon ruled that the official running the consumer finance watchdog could not redefine a word in its funding law to cut it off, ending a legal theory rather than moving any new money to a bureau that has already been hollowed out.

A volunteer group's arithmetic, a judge the sheriff had endorsed and a raid moved up a day put about 1,000 boxes of voted ballots in a sheriff's custody, and seven justices answered it with three words of statute: in no event.

The body the Security Council put in charge of rebuilding Gaza has unveiled 66 projects worth $2.45 billion while declining to publish its budget, keeping money at JPMorgan Chase as well as the World Bank, and answering to no auditor the resolution names.

A one-sentence letter took Justice Samuel Alito out of the biggest climate case of the term, months after the Court said he did not need to step aside, leaving eight justices and a possible tie that would let Boulder's lawsuit go forward.

Alaska spent three years prosecuting eleven American Samoans who checked the only box its forms offered, and dropped the last cases once an appeals court said a felony requires knowing you did something wrong.

A patient lies anaesthetised with the skull open, and the surgeon has to decide how much brain to remove.

After sanctioning 13 of the court's officials, the administration has prepared a designation of the court as a whole that would reach the banks, insurers and software vendors keeping it running, and Europe has not yet decided whether to stop its own firms from complying.